LEAD on Climate 2020

May 13, 2020

LEAD on Climate 2020 will virtually bring together more than 300 businesses - large and small - from sectors across the U.S. economy, to call on Congress to pass a resilient economic recovery plan while working toward long term climate solutions—including a price on carbon.

On May 13, businesses will make the case for a climate-smart recovery. 

As Congress considers various paths to recovery from the health and economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, it should strive to build back better, by planning for a more resilient economy. Lawmakers should protect against future shocks and systemic threats—including those associated with climate change.

Participating Businesses: 

1908 Brands
A Better Way Counseling Service
ADinfinitum, Inc
Adobe, Inc
AHRI
Akamai Technologies
Alchemy salon
Alter Eco Foods
Alterra Mountain Co.
Amicus Solar Cooperative
Amy’s Kitchen
Appellation Trading Company
Arapahoe Basin Ski Area
Arbonne
Ashland Food Coop
Aurora Organic Dairy
Avalon Trust
AVEDA
Azavea
BA Auto Care
Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc
Berkeley Building Company
Best Buy
Bhoomi
Bi-Rite Family of Businesses
Biotic Brands Kvass
Blue & Green Planet, Ltd
Boochcraft / Pacha
Boston Trust Walden
Boulder Organic Foods
Boyne Resorts
Brandon Industrial Ecosystems Partners
Bread SRSLY
Breakthrough Coaching, LLC
Brew Dr Kombucha
Brightest
Burnham/The Code Group
Burton
C2O Pure Coconut Water
Califia Farms
Capital One
Capricorn Investment Group
Carlson Climate Consulting LLC
CETEC
Change Finance
Charlotte’s Web
Cherry Republic
ChicoEco, Inc, DBA ChicoBag Company
Ciel Power LLC
CleanChoice Energy
Clear Blue Commercial, Inc.
Clear Blue Commercial, Inc.
Clear Frontier Ag. Management
CLEAResult
Clif Bar & Company
Clif Family Winery & Farm
Climate Futures inc.
Clover Sonoma
Collectivity trading
CommonSpirit Health
Conscious Container
Creative Disruption
Cultivating Capital
Danone (& Horizon)
Davies Office Furniture
Design Management Services
Diversified Natural Concepts
Dow
Down to Earth Organic & Natural
Dr. Bronner’s
Dr. Yolanda Whyte Pediatrics
Dr. Yolanda Whyte Pediatrics
Drawdown Fund
DSM North America
east coast resources llc
eBay
Ecodeo
ECOhouse
EcoRich LLC
Effect Partners
Eileen Fisher
Emergy Foods
Energy M&A
EnergyLink
Entegrity
Ethical Markets Media
Ethical Markets Media
Etsy
EverHope Capital
Evolution Marketing, llc
evolve environment :: architecture
Exact Solar
Experience Momentum
Fetzer Vineyards
FITNYC
Foresight Management
France Sustainable Solutions
Fred Thomas Resort
Fresca Foods, Inc.
Full Harvest
Gaia Herbs
Genentech
General Mills
Gensler
Glen’s Garden Market
GlobalReach
Good Energy Guild
Good Scents Herb & Flower Company
Grassroots Capital Management PBC
Green Commuter
Green Luxe inc.
Greener Solutions Inc.
Group14 Engineering
Grove Collaborative
Growing Naturally, llc
Guayaki Yerba Mate
Guru
Hannon Armstrong
Happy Family Corporation
Harvest Market
Hatch Ltd
Healer Collective
Heath & Lineback Engineers
Herb Pharm
Herbalist & Alchemist
Higherring
Hirshberg Strategic
Hummingbird Wholesale
IKEA
Imagine Baking
Imlak’esh Organics
Indigo Agriculture
Industrial Microbes
INFRA
Inherent Group
InNative
Iva Kaufman Associates
Iva Kaufman Associates
JBQ Trust
JE Dunn Construction
JLL
Jonathan Rose Companies
Jones Snowboards
Just Salad LLC
Kavanagh Consulting, LLC
Keap Candles
KeHE Enterprises, Inc.
Kendall Sustainable Infrastructure, LLC
Kickstarter
Kimberton Whole Foods
Kinetic Communities Consulting
KitchenTown
Kuli Kuli
L.E. Rigby Innovations
LafargeHolcim USA
Lamely-Wellehan
Lamely-Wellehan
Leading Change Consulting & Coaching
LeChase
Levi Strauss & Co.
LinkedIn
Looptworks
Lopez Foods & Dorada Foods
Lotus Foods
Emergy Foods
LT’s Embroidery and Screen Printing
Lundberg Family Farms
M&E Engineers
MaCher
Mangrove Web Development
Manzana Products Co., Inc.
Maple Valley Cooperative
Mars Inc.
Martin Bauer Group USA
McMac Cx
Measure To Improve
MegaFood
Meow Wolf
Microsoft
Miller Dyer Spears, Inc.
Miller/Howard Investments, Inc.
Miron Construction Co., Inc.
MMercer Consulting
Modern Species
Mrs. Green’s World
Mycocycle, Inc
Namaste Solar
National Ski Areas Association
Native Energy Auditors
Natural Grocers
Natural Habitats
Natural Joy
Natural Network International
Natural Systems Engineering
Nature Bio Foods
Nature’s Path Foods
Navitas Organics
Neighborhood Sun Benefit Corp.
Nestle
New Belgium
Nike
NRX Logistics
Numi Organic Tea
Nutiva
NY NJ Food Guru LLC
OIA
Okapi Architecture Inc
Onora Global
Organically Grown Company
OSC2
Outpost Natural Foods
Pacific Group Resorts Inc.
PAE Engineers
Partners HealthCare System
Patagonia
Peerless Coffee and Tea
PepsiCo
Perfect Supplements
Perkins & Will
PG & E
Pivot Brewing Company
Planet FWD
Planet Swampy LLC
Plastic Pollution Solutions
PNSAA
POWDR
Prosperity Candle
Pure Ground Ingredients
Pure Strategies
PVH Corp.
r.Cup
Raise Green
Rebel Green
ReGrained
Renewal Mill
ReVision Energy
Rhino Foods
Rincon-Vitova Insectaries, Inc
Rockefeller Asset Management
Salesforce
Sambazon, Inc.
Saunders Hotel Group
SC Laboratories
Schlegel & Associates
Schneider Electric
ScratchGravel Studios, LLC
SERA Architects
Serenity Kids
Seventh Generation
SFR Seed
SheepWul
Shinka Sustainability Consultants, LLC
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
Sierra Nevada Physical Therapy
Simply Good Jars
Sir Kensington’s
Sites International
Ski California
Ski New Hampshire
Ski Vermont
Slope Shots
SmithGroup
SNO-GO
Snowsports Industry Association
Social and Environmental Impact Management Music Industry
Soli
Solitude Mountain Resort
South Pole Group
Sprouts Farmers Market
SRI Quality System Registrar
Starbucks
Steaz Tea
STOKE
Stonyfield
Strategies for Planned Change
Straus Family Creamery
Studio Airstream
SunCommon
Sunowner Inc
Sunowner Inc
Sunrise Labs Inc.
Sustainable Concepts, LLC
Sustainable Food Policy Alliance
Sustainable Food Trade Association
Sustainable Pacific
Tabor Consulting Group
Teadora
Teatulia
Tellari
TEN OVER STUDIO
Tendaji LLC
Tendaji LLC
The Good Pencil Company
The Lion Company, Inc.
The Strebel Planning Group
Thinkshift Communications
Thrifty Nickel
Thrifty Nickel
THRIVE MARKET
Tiffany & Co.
Tinved
Traditional Medicinals
Trane Technologies
Trilliant Networks
Triple Ethos, LLC
TripZero
Trust Transparency Center
UCapture Inc
Uncommon Cacao
Unilever
United Natural Foods
UserTesting
Vail Resorts
Venner Consulting
Verdant Power, Inc.
Vert Asset Management
VF Corporation
Visa
Vital Plan
Voyaging Foods
W.S. Badger Company, Inc
Walker Consulting
Walker Consulting
Water Asset Management
We Grow Green Tech
Wedgemere
Willdan Energy Solutions
WishGarden Herbs
Wolf, DiMatteo + Associates
Workday
Wyse Organics LLC
ZEGO

 

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LEAD on Climate 2020
Media Advisory

More than 300 businesses to participate in LEAD on Climate 2020—the largest ever business advocacy day for climate action

Rep. Kathy Castor, DSM, Mars, Inc., Salesforce to hold virtual media briefing ahead of LEAD on Climate 2020 to call for a climate-smart recovery from COVID-19 

CEOs and other representatives from more than 300 businesses including Capital One, DSM North America, Dow, Eileen Fisher, General Mills, Mars, Inc., Microsoft, NIKE, Salesforce and VISA will come together on Wednesday, May 13, for the largest business-led lawmaker education and advocacy day for climate action. They will call on Congress to build back a more resilient, sustainable economy from COVID-19. 
 
LEAD on Climate 2020 will make the case to U.S. House and Senate lawmakers on both sides of the aisle that a climate-smart recovery is needed to build back better from the economic downturn. In virtual meetings with lawmakers, participating companies and investors will urge Congress to protect against future shocks and systemic risks stemming from the ongoing climate crisis. 
 
Specifically, they will call for:

• an accelerated transition to a net-zero emissions economy by 2050 or sooner
• more investment in resilient infrastructure
• effective climate solutions—including those that fully leverage the job opportunities of zero-carbon industries
• support for longer-term, market-wide policy mechanisms such as a price on carbon 

 
Hear from Rep. Kathy Castor, DSM’s Hugh Welsh, Mars’ Brad Figel, and Salesforce’s Patrick Flynn in a virtual media briefing ahead of LEAD on Climate 2020 at 10:00 am EST on Tuesday, May 12 to get a preview of what to expect from the day’s virtual congressional meetings. 

Click here to watch the full recording of the virtual media briefing. 
 
What: Virtual Media Briefing
When: Tuesday, May 12, at 10:00 am EST
Who: Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL); Hugh Welsh, President & General Council, DSM North America; Brad Figel, Vice President of Public Affairs, Mars, Inc., Patrick Flynn, Vice President, Sustainability, Salesforce, and Anne Kelly, Vice President of Government Relations, Ceres
RSVP: Helen Booth-Tobin ([email protected]) for media registration details. This is open to accredited members of the media only. 
 
LEAD on Climate 2020 is the largest mobilization of American and multinational companies and investors to call on U.S. congressional lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to take climate action as part of the economic recovery process. It has been organized by the sustainability nonprofit organization Ceres and other partner organizations. In 2019, LEAD on Carbon Pricing brought more than 75 businesses to Capitol Hill to call for a price on carbon. It was the largest business gathering to advocate for climate legislation in more than a decade.